Articles July 18, 2011

Github

Finally got round to uploading some of my stuff to the GitHub site.
If you want a laugh have a look at my code alastairhm@github ;)

Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles July 13, 2011

US Army Jeep Detail

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Via Flickr:
US Army Jeep detail, taken at the Wath Street Fair 2011

Available as a post card.

US Army Jeep by doodle_m
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Articles July 12, 2011

Studley Royal, Near Ripon

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A few photographs from a recent dog walk round Studley Royal near Ripon.

Articles July 1, 2011

Google Plus

Having my first look at Google+, so far looks nice.
Need to figure out if you can get a RSS feed of the items you've +'ed?

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles June 29, 2011

WATIR makes a tester's life easier.

I am constantly amazed that Watir and Ruby make software testing a web application so easy.
For example finding all the links in a table based on their text starting with a string.

stub = "0 Text"
browser.table(:id,"myTable").links(:text,/#{stub}/).each { |link| puts link.text }

This will return all the links in the table "myTable" with text starting with "0 Text"

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles June 23, 2011

Getting in close

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Some result of playing with my +4 macro filter.

Jelly Babies

Fruit and Nuts

Orange Lily Macro

Articles June 23, 2011

Setting browser size and position with watir-webdriver

In working on my automated web app test using watir-webdriver I need to change the window size and move it on the screen.

From asking the question at StackOverFlow.com you can do this with the following commands;

browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)
browser.execute_script('window.resizeTo(800,600)')
browser.execute_script('window.moveTo(0,0)')

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles June 23, 2011

Android Argus

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Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

Articles May 23, 2011

Log 2

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Log 2
Originally uploaded by Alastair Montgomery

Via Flickr:
Close up of a log seen during walking the dog in Ripon.

Articles May 11, 2011

Converting scripts from Watir to Webdriver, Table size

I am starting the process of converting my WATIR scripts to use WATIR webdriver.

There a couple of table methods I was using in my WATIR scripts to check the size (rows and columns) of a HTML table.

myTable.row_count
myTable.column_count

These methods don't exist in webdriver so I was looking for a good way of doing the same check.

For rows this seems to give the same result as the row_count method

myTable.rows.length

For column count of the table I've tried converting the table to an array of strings and getting the length of the first row, but the conversion to the string array is taking a while.

myCols = myTable.strings[0].length

After asking the question on StackOverFlow the solution to find the number of columns in the table was to use;

myCols = myTable.row.cells.length

This assumes that the first row has the correct number of columns, which in our application should always be the case.

To avoid rewriting all the unit tests I've extended the Watir::Table class at the start of the script so that it contains the missing row_count and column_count methods.

class Watir::Table
    def row_count
        return self.rows.length
    end
    def column_count
        return self.row.cells.length
    end
end

The unit tests now run unaltered.

If your table has a uniform number of columns for each row then you could check the whole table by doing something like.

        myTable.rows.each { |myRow|
            myCols = myRow.cells.length
            assert_equal(validColumnCount,myCols,"Column count mismatch")
        }

Doodle's Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery